Homemade Pasta

Katy,my niece, came to visit for the day. This afternoon we went grocery shopping and then we made pasta sauce AND homemade pasta. It was fettucine. Katy thought it was fun and "kind of messy"! Our recipe made lots of pasta and we had fun hanging it up to dry.

Mozzarella Cheese

What is unusual about this homemade pizza is that not only did I make the dough but I made the mozzarella cheese that went on it! I am re-reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver which is about knowing where your food is coming from. Her family spent a year trying to eat as much as possible in a 100 mile radius from their home. In the book she talks about making 30 Minute Mozzarella and I decided that I wanted to try it. I ordered the ingredients ( 2 of them) from one of her sources and the only other item I needed was a gallon of milk. It was really cool watching the milk turn into curds and then working them together and stretching them like taffy. And it truly took 30 minutes! Definitely worth a try. I may try a few other kinds of cheeses now that I was brave enough to try this first one! Cheesemaking here I come!

The seedlings are sprouting

What is this you might ask? It is some arugula that we planted about a week or so ago. During the day we keep it in the sunspace for the light and at night by the woodstove for the heat. Seeing the seeds pop up make us think that spring might actually arrive at some point. There were a few chives peeking up out of the ground outside until they got buried on Friday with 6 more inches of snow!! April Fools! Hopefully it will disappear fast as I am starting to get the gardening bug again.

This little guy was looking at me at eye level we have so much snow! He was on top of the snow and would go down a hole and come back up to the top with something that he found to eat. What a funny sight to see him/her eye to eye!